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Improving Government Payment and Contract Data Quality in Texas
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Improving Government Payment and Contract Data Quality in Texas

IntroductionThe Texas state government has processed nearly $1.8 trillion in payments and 200,000 contracts over a decade. After filtering out statutory obligations (intergovernmental payments, interfund transfers, salaries and wages, investments, employee benefits, debt service principal […]
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          California’s Exposure Under the FY2026 Homelessness Assistance Continuum of Care NOFO

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          The Case for Pay-for-Value in Federal Homelessness Funding

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          Gatekeeping the Texas Workforce: Programmatic Accreditation Monopolies

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          Fiscal Transparency in Nonprofit Grantmaking

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          Solving Unsheltered Homelessness Starts with Rejecting the Current Interpretation of Olmstead (1999): A Clinical and Policy Perspective

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          The Historical Basis for State and Local Discretion Over the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness and the Consequences of its Erosion

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          U.S. FoodGrade and SNAPSmart